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The ability to read and understand medication instructions is a form of health literacy. Health literacy encompasses a wide range of skills, and competencies that people develop over their lifetimes to seek out, comprehend, evaluate, and use health information and concepts to make informed choices, reduce health risks, and increase quality of life.
Frontiers in Public Health. 10. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2022.1022587. PMC 9870288. PMID 36699882. Erku D, Khatri R, Endalamaw A, Wolka E, Nigatu F, Zewdie A, Assefa Y (2023). "Digital Health Interventions to Improve Access to and Quality of Primary Health Care Services: A Scoping Review". International Journal of Environmental Research and Public ...
Health communication is the study and practice of communicating promotional health information, such as in public health campaigns, health education, and between doctor and patient. [1] The purpose of disseminating health information is to influence personal health choices by improving health literacy .
Prior to the 1960s, the physician was primarily in charge and the patients were expected to have a passive role in their own health decisions. [9] In 1976, the Patient Education and Counseling journal was founded and the concept of health education began to really take off. [9] It was around this time that it became apparent that if patients ...
Mental health literacy has also found its uses in the realm of sports. Sports social workers are promoting mental health literacy of athletes through various means. Social workers are engaging in research, education, policy development, advocating for individuals, organizing communities, and through direct practice. [52] Inclusion with Health ...
Among the settings that have received special attention are the community, health care facilities, schools, and worksites. [31] Worksite health promotion, also known by terms such as "workplace health promotion", has been defined as "the combined efforts of employers, employees and society to improve the health and well-being of people at work".
A medical doctor explaining an X-ray to a patient. Several factors help increase patient participation, including understandable and individual adapted information, education for the patient and healthcare provider, sufficient time for the interaction, processes that provide the opportunity for the patient to be involved in decision-making, a positive attitude from the healthcare provider ...
One of the federal laws enacted to safeguard patient's health information (medical record, billing information, treatment plan, etc.) and to guarantee patient's privacy is the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 or HIPAA. [109] HIPAA gives patients the autonomy and control over their own health records. [109]